Republicans on the Wrong Side of History

Sarah Palin finally got her death panels — a direct blow from the
Republican House. In shutting down the government, leaving 800,000
people without a paycheck and draining the economy of $300 million a
day, the Party of Madness also took away last-chance cancer trials for
children at the National Institutes of Health.

And now that the pain that was dismissed as a trifle on Monday, a
“slimdown” according to the chuckleheads at Fox News, is revealed as
tragic by mid-week, the very radicals who caused the havoc are trying
to say it’s not their fault.

It’s too late. They flunked hostage-taking. About 30 or so
Republicans in the House, bunkered in gerrymandered districts while
breathing the oxygen of delusion, are now part of a cast of miscreants
who have stood firmly on the wrong side of history. The headline, today
and 50 years from now, will be the same: Republicans closed the
government to keep millions of their fellow Americans from getting
affordable health care....